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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Wednesday Web Browser

John Warner's recent interview with author and professor Philip Graham is one of the best interviews I've read in awhile. The kind of piece that makes you wish you'd had the chance to study writing with the interviewee yourself. ==========Need a bit of humor to get you through the week? Check out this Rumpus piece on lit journal publishing, featuring a particularly amusing set of "submission guidelines" from Jane Roper.==========Tayari Jones reminds us that it's almost high season for retreats and colonies. She recommends Nova Ren Suma's collection of writers' quotations on colony experiences, too.==========On the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog, Sina Queyras reflects--and shares others' views--"on the matter of career."==========On the Hugo House blog, Karen Finneyfrock describes the path to publication for her latest book of poetry.==========Last, but definitely not least, Lisa Romeo offers some terrific suggestions on ways to support the authors in your writing community.

About Me

Erika Dreifus lives and writes in New York City. Her story collection, Quiet Americans, will be published in January 2011 by Last Light Studio Books. Erika is a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and an advisory board member forJ Journal: New Writing on Justice, and she wrote the section on "Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing" for the second edition of Tom Kealey's Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Erika's writing practice encompasses fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. For more about Erika's writing, please visit her website.

Erika is also the editor/publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter featuring advice, opportunities, and resources on the craft and business of writing for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.